I don’t get how anyone thinks that spending 100s of hours over and over again on projects that make $0 is a good idea. “Definition of insanity” and all that. You are in denial that you are unemployed, you might as well do something more interesting or enjoyable.

There is an argument to be made that it's good training, like coding kata's just with the end to end.

If you're looking to make a living off of it, the training argument only works if you then go on to used the trained skills though.

In this instance, if the numbers provided are to be believed they made bank.

i'm seeing a six figure sale on a five figure investment, among others.

Though i suspect, like is usually it, that the provided cost numbers are much higher in reality when factoring in time and opportunity cost etc.

The White House calling somebody "hostile and political". Hmph.

Every accusation is an admission for them.

How did you know he used tools like this one? You sit him down and interrogate him? Or did they own up to it? What was the result? Did you cut them loose?

The industry seems so divided on AI right now.

We have interviews where we aren't allowing the use of it (yet interviewees are using stealth AIs to cheat). At the same time, I am also hearing of organizations mandating the use of it, ie: "20% of the code committed needs to be generated". There's probably a set of orgs that exist that do not allow the use of AI in coding interviews, yet practically mandate the use of AI in day-to-day work!

We are at an inflection point I think, but my guess is AI is going to win out soon enough.

"Supabase with a Vercel app"

I guess mega geniuses make mistakes too...

Has there ever been a successful SaaS startup that was built with “no code” methods/tools?

I remember seeing ads for that sort of thing in Byte in like 1992, and still have yet to see any products in that category find success.

"If I was Eddie Vedder Would you like me any better? That's it, I quit, I don't Give a shit"

Local H, "Eddie Vedder", 1996

highly underrated band

(not associated with them, although I do share a name with their frontman)

Ha, awesome name and username.

Could you explain what you mean by upward mobility here? If you mean by working more hours, that’s not a novel way to make more money.

Genuinely curious wtf "upward mobility" is in regards to Uber type gig work.

Working more hours isn't "upward mobility".

Yeah, surprise surprise, $13/hour is getting close to the average minimum wage ($11.18/hour). Except without any benefits, and all the expenses that would normally be covered by your employer.

I do not want to defend the gig apps but there is a major benefit, you can make your own schedule and (mostly) work in the geography that you want. That flexibility is extremely valuable to some people.

Sure, make arguably less than minimum wage but do it whenever you want.

Sadly that’s the best option for some people. And it’s worth remembering that the hours many minimum wage jobs give are irregular in quantity with very little consistency of schedule.

We should definitely have robust protections for gig workers but we don’t want to throw out the baby with the bath water.

Thing is, the model could have been built with employees, even lowly paid ones, but then it would have been pretty transparent that they were subsidizing the rates to take market share from licensed taxis. The indirection is a feature, not a bug. Have we learned anything? Probably not.

Yes, this came to my mind. That all this AI work will someday culminate in a generated Lynch Return of the Jedi.